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Episode 63 · August 23, 2026 · 13:11

Hermes GEO: 0 to 358 Clicks a Day!

AI SEO Strategy: Get Free Traffic with Hermes Agent

Learn how to scale website traffic from zero to 350+ clicks per day using automated AI agents. This guide reveals the exact system for building authority and dominating both Google search and AI overviews.

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Hermes agent took this website from zero to 358 clicks per day using AI SEO. This is all free traffic from Google and AI search engines with no ads. And in this video I'm going to reveal exactly how it works. You can also see our AI search engine traffic right here as well.

So we are now getting more and more traffic from AI search engines and we're ranking pretty well using this system inside there too. So in this video, I'm going to show you the exact engine behind it so you can get free customers finding your website every single day. And this same engine took multiple different websites from zero to, for example, zero to 150 clicks per day. This is another website.

Use exactly the same system. Here's another website, zero to 66 clicks a day using the same system. So it is a system and an engine that we've rinsed and repeated over and over again, uh, to get the same results in the same trajectory. Now there's one thing you absolutely have to get right for this to work.

And near the end I'll also show you the surprising discovery from the biggest AI search study ever done that changes how you should think about this. And once you see it, everything clicks. So stick with me, because by the end of this video, you'll know exactly how to get free SEO traffic from Google and recommended by AI using Hermes agent. Let's get into it.

So the first question you're going to have is how does the AI decide who to cite? That comes down to authority and authority is built off your website, not on it. And here's a stat almost nobody talks about. Only 38% of AI views citations now come from Google's organic top 10.

So the AI isn't just copying the rankings is actually forming its own opinion from what the whole web says about you. Now, this brings us to backlinks. A backlink is just a vote from another site where another website links to yours. And that vote tells Google your content is worth trusting.

So more real votes, more authority, higher rankings, but almost everyone gets the type wrong. So for example, a lot of people build backlinks from directories to their website, or for example, these social profiles, and then nothing happens because those links are free and available to everyone. So they signal nothing. The links that grew these websites, I've just shown you comes down to niche edits.

If you'd never heard the term before, here it is in plain English, a niche edits where a real person goes into an existing article on their real blog. A page is already live, already indexed, already trusted and adds your link inside the content where it fits naturally like they're citing you as a source. Let me show you an example. So if we have a look at this website, the group from zero to 358 clicks per day, basically the more backlinks we built to this website.

So you can see backlinks and organic traffic on a chart right here. The more backlinks we built to this website, the more traffic it got. It also started ranking inside AI views using the system. Now, how do we use this?

We basically started building backlinks to the site, but what types of backlinks did we build? We basically reached out to other websites and asked them to link to us. Here's an example of a site we got a backlink from. And so when we're reaching out to these sites like this one, and you can see our backlink from this website going to our site that's now ranking really well.

When we're reaching out to these sites, we start getting backlinks actually work. Now this takes effort, right? So website owner has to go into their website, edit the links inside the site, start building them. And there's three reasons this type wins.

So number one, the page already has trust. It's an aged page with its own authority and some of that authority flows straight to you. That's how a small site punches up. One of our sites is only around like domain rating 20.

If you look at this site that's getting 358 clicks per day, it's only getting 20 on domain rating. That's 20 out of a hundred. So it's got 20% of its potential domain rating, which means it's still quite a small site, but it outranks sites that are at light domain rating 50 because the votes pointing at it, a real editorial votes. The reason number two, that it works really well is because it's natural.

A real writer chose to reference you inside relevant content. That's exactly the pattern Google system rewards. And it's why these sites grow straight through the core updates, the wiped out a lot of sites relying on cheap links. Also, number three, it's pretty hard to get a backlink because you have to reach out to sites or it was hard until we got this system right here.

So what we have is Hermes agent and Hermes agent can do outreach campaigns for us. So I've built it into our agentic operating system. And essentially what we can do here is we can type the type of websites that we want to reach out to. So for example, I can type in here, find me relevant SEO agency sites that I could reach out to for a backlink.

So we type it in like, so, and then you can see that we've got a list of agents and list of websites that we could reach out to for a backlink here. And we've got the notes. And basically Hermes agent inside this beautiful UI uses Hunter API to find the backlinks that we can reach out to. So it's really hard for you competitors to copy this system because they'd have to do the same outreach work, finding sites, hunting emails, writing messages that don't sound dodgy, following up, managing replies.

It's a really draining job in all of SEO, which is exactly why most people never do it. But Hermes can do this work for you automatically. And so your lead widens every week whilst you're on your business. Now we can, for example, set up email campaigns here.

We can generate leads. We've got the dashboard. And if you want this system, we've actually got it inside the AR Profitable Boardroom. So if you think, oh, it sounds powerful, but you can never wire up yourself.

You don't have to. Inside the AI Profitable Boardroom, you actually get the agentic operating system, which is the exact dashboard. This whole geo engine runs from. So Hermes plugs in right next to your cloud and open cloud and their outreach tool you're about to see is already built in.

So the lead finder is wired in, the email campaign system is in there. You get the zip file for a day roadmap for getting your own Hermes engine set up and also daily updates. As we improve it, there are loads of SEOs and also people using Hermes agent inside here. And we've got a full section on SEO.

Plus you can post questions inside the community. If you get stuck, I create video tutorials for you daily, personally, and also you can direct message me. Plus there's always someone online, ready to help you whenever you need as well. Link in the comments description or go to the arprofitableboardroom.com to get access.

Now back to the engine. So there's two connections that power the outreach system inside the agent OS. Number one, Hunter finds the leads and their email addresses and Google workspace can send the email. So once those are plugged into your Hermes agent, the whole workflow runs from one screen.

So you can tell Hermes like what kind of websites you want links from, for example, like blogs in your niche, it finds them, then it enriches every lead automatically. So it can, for example, like pull their website information. It can read what they write about, add notes on each one. So instead of a cold list of like random people, you get a research list where the agent already understands who each person is.

And then Hermes is actually going to write the campaign. So the great thing about that is the, every email is personalized to the specific lead, their first name, their website name, the exact reason you're reaching out to them, fielding automatically for every single lead. Each message reads like a human has written it for that specific person because the agent effectively did. And then it's actually going to send it.

So what it can do from here, as you can see, this is an example of how it writes email. So it literally writes email automatically for you and then fills in the details for each person and makes it unique for that person too, which is super personalized, but additionally can send them for you as well. So this is the part that normally eats your whole afternoon. Hermes can manage the inbox, the replies, the followups, the back and forth, the conversation layer as well, where most link building ends or people struggle with.

So if you're a website owner and you have someone else that replies to you with a question, you know, you're probably busy, three days pass, the link never happens, but Hermes just handles it. So this exact system is what built the links behind the 358 clicks a day site and the 325 links that were built to this site as well. Now you might think, okay, why does this work so well? So Ahrefs actually ran the largest study of its kind.

They analyzed 75,000 brands across chat GPT, Google AI mode, and AI reviews to find which signal predicts whether AI recommends a brand. Branded web mentions your brand name appearing across the web, linked or not correlated at 0.664. Raw backlinks came in at just 0.218. That's roughly a three to one gap in favor of mentions.

In plain English, the AI cares less about the link itself and more about seeing your brand over and over again. Next to the right words across trusted websites. Why is that? Well, if you think about how these systems work, Google grounds the answer in its index and runs a language model up at the top of the results.

So if the model keeps seeing your brand name appear, it's more likely to return it in the answer. So every mention is a training example. The words around your link are a lesson and the gap between brands that do this and brands that don't is brutal. Brands in the top quarter for web mentions averaged 169 AI overviews.

The next tier averages 14, so 10 times the AI visibility and around 85% of all AI citations came from earned media. Other people's websites talking about you, not your own site, other people's. And here's why this exact reason, niche edits are great for GEO and SEO and whatever you want to call it. Niche edit isn't just a backlink.

It's written with your brand name by a real person inside relevant content on a trusted site next to the exact phrase you want to own. So it's a link vote for Google rankings and the branded mention for AI visibility in one placement. The HRF study also found branded anchor text is one of the top correlated signals in the anchor is something you shape in every single average placement. We tested this directly.

So some of the backlinks pointing at our community call us the best AR community, multiple trusted websites saying the same thing over and over again in their own words. Now, if you type that phrase into Google, like so, you can see the top choices include the AI Profitable Boarding, right? So this system actually works because we are getting mentioned as the best AI community over and over again across multiple different websites. The AI basically learned it from the web and the outreach wrote the lesson.

That's a shift from SEO thinking to GEO thinking. So SEO asked like, how do I rank this page for this keyword? GEO asks what do I want AI to believe about my business? And then every niche edit actually teaches it.

So a local service business, for example, could have blogs in that region mentioning them as the trusted source and the AI starts saying it back to searches. One more layer as well, because the same data points from where else unexpected. So profound analysis of AI platforms found that Reddit is the learning and leading source for both Google AI overviews and perplexity. SEMrush actually studied over 100 million AI citations and they found Reddit, LinkedIn and Wikipedia take a hugely outsized share across chat, GPT, AI overviews and perplexity.

And that's why our Reddit posts also rank for our target keywords too. So we have a subreddit that ranks for our target keywords so that we can rank multiple times for the same keyword and also generate more traffic. Now, you might think, okay, how quickly does this work? Usually about three to six months to see a real movement, especially on a new website.

So our website originally, it was flat from like April to almost the end of the year. Last year, Google didn't trust a new site at first. SEO's called out the sandbox. It's exactly why most people quit.

So they published 10 pages, see nothing, walk away. But that's why they never win, right? Here's what changes with this engine. The waiting doesn't cost you anything because it's just running automatically in the background.

So you don't need to send the emails. You don't need to manage them. You just set up Hermes agent to automate them using the system that I've shown you today. Now, if you want to get the full system ready to go with the full loop, as you can see right here, that finds the sites, researches them, writes the email, sends the replies, then you get the backlink that helps you rank and also helps you get more mentions, which also helps you rank inside AI as well.

So you get free traffic from both AI and your website. You can get that inside the AI Profitable Boarding. So it comes with our full agentic operating system, which you can see right here with all your agents plug in. We've got loads of great custom workflows for Hermes agent as well.

So we've added the new Hermes bots section here. We've got Hermes Apollo, Hermes Oracle, Hermes Muse. These are all just custom workflows are absolutely amazing for automating content and outreach and all these other cool stuff. We also have a memory system plugged in so that you can link all of your agents to a system where it can pull in context and also update the context automatically.

You can have all your other agents like Claude and Antigravity working side by side if you want to. And this is all available inside the AI Profitable Boarding. Link in the comments description or go to the AI Profitable Boarding.com. Inside the community, you can ask questions, get help and support.

Inside the classroom, you get access to all of our best trainings. And in the calendar, you can jump a weekly coaching course and get help and support in real time. If you want the exact system that I've shown you today, it's inside the agent OS. So you just grab the agent OS right here.

And then also inside the map, you can meet people in your local area who are building out with AI agents like you. So feel free to get this link in the comments description or go to the AI Profitable Boarding.com. And then also we have a free SEO strategy session. So if you want to book that in, that's available at Goldie.agency.

You can get free SEO strategy session and we'll basically look at your site, give you a custom tailored game plan of how to rank, answer any questions you have. You'll learn the best link building strategies for your website, plus how to rank. And that's based on what's working for us. So feel free to get this.

Hope to see you inside the AI Profitable Boarding. Cheers for watching. Bye bye.

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